User:公的驱逐舰/Manual of Style

This is an Proposal draft. It is not an official policy of Moegirlpedia.

General

1. Observe the Chicago Manual of Style.

Titles

1. Italicize titles of a major literary work and other longer work with the template {{Italic title}}.
   • No clear consensus on what deserves italicization has been established; generally, titles of anything that can be a standalone book or a collection shorter works should be italicized. These include novels, light novels, and standalone novellas; collection of short stories or poetries; most nonfiction books; scripts; epics; newspapers; musical albums; motion pictures or feature-length films; et cetera.
2. Put titles of short literary work in quotations when mentioning them in articles, but do not use quotations in article titles.
   • Same issue: no clear consensus on what deserves quotation has been established; they usually form a larger collection that deserves italicization (e.g. poetry and a poetry collection, articles and a newspaper...) Usually, these works will be mentioned with quotations: short stories; poetries; articles from a magazine, newspaper, or website; music and singles; short videos; et cetera.
3. Follow other spelling and romanization conventions outlined in this manual when they apply.
4. Do not use characters or phrases that is restrained by technical restrictions.

Spelling

National varieties

article with strong national ties

Follow local conventions. In articles whose subject relates to a country or region that establishes English as one of its official languages, the official spelling convention there is preferred.

In articles whose subject relates to current or former Commonwealth nations and colonies that no longer considers English an official language, British English spelling is preferred; in those whose subject relates to the United States or its former mandates that no longer considers English an official language, American spelling is preferred.

Follow established conventions

Follow previous conventions. For articles not directly related to English-speaking countries and territories, follow the already-used spelling convention in that article.

Keep spelling consistent

Keep spelling convention consistent throughout an article and, preferably, throughout a related series.

Fallback

The Merriam-Webster's Dictionary spelling for American English or Oxford English Dictionary Spelling for British English shall serve as the fallback spelling conventions when the previous rules fail to provide a single spelling convention to follow.

Foreign languages

General

1. When mentioning a foreign word in the article, use one of the below method.
   1. Translation-Original.
      • The so-called “Children's Pass” (Spanish: Pase para Niños)...
   2. Romanization-Original-Translation.
      • A special feature is called Danmu (Chinese: 弹幕, lit. “bullet curtain”), which...
   3. Translation-Original-Romanization.
      • “Bullet Curtain” (Japanese: 弾幕, Danmaku), sometimes called “Bullet Hell”, refers to...
2. For links, provide explanation in English and source language with {{languageicon}}.
   • See also: Arknight's official website (Chinese)...
3. The language and translation may be provided as part of a surrounding text.
   • Luftwaffe, the German air force, reacted...
4. If a different romanization or translation scheme was used already and already accepted as a convention (e.g. Shaanxi, Hong Kong, Taipei), always use that romanization.
   • Taibei Taipei; Toohoo Touhou
5. Keep all diacritics originally present in latin scripts.
6. If a language is not in the list below, follow the English world convention.
7. If the appearance of an unlisted language grow in EnMGP, or if there is a dispute about romanization conventions, open a discussion thread on the discussion board.

Chinese

1. Romanize Chinese with standard pinyin with no diacritic marks and appropriate capitalization, unless
   1. there is a widely used romanization already taken as the convention; then, use that romanization
   2. the usage calls for accurate pinyin specifically, for example when used to provide accurate pronunciation; then, provide standard pinyin with standard diacritic marks
2. Romanize Cantonese with Jyutping or Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanization. Unless the romanization is used to provide accurate pronunciation, one may drop Jyutping's tone marks.

Japanese

1. Romanize Japanese with Modified Hepburn romanization.
   • The kana "を" and "ヲ" may be romanized as "wo"; "ゐ" and "ヰ", "wi"; and "ゑ" and "ヱ", "we" to show distinction from the similarly pronounced kanas from the "あ" row.
   • If macrons (for use with some long vowels, i.e. ā, ē, ū, ō) are difficult to use, you may fall back to romanizing syllabically, but this is not recommended.
     • Mod Hepburn: お姉さんは 金曜日に 猫を 追いかけます。→onēsan wa kinyōbi ni neko o oikakemasu.
     • syllabic romanization: お姉さんは 金曜日に 猫を 追いかけます。→oneesan wa kinyoubi ni neko wo oikakemasu.

Date and time

No abberviations

Always provide full date and time; avoid abbreviations except to save space in informational templates or the like.

Gregorian calendar

Always provide date and time in the Gregorian calendar for dates on or after 14 September 1752 (Gregorian), unless:

1. There is a strong tie to a country and this country, at the time mentioned, continued to use the Julian calendar. Use the Julian calendar, and use the page-top template {{Julian Calendar}} accordingly.
2. There is a strong tie to a country and this country, at the time mentioned, uses a calendar different from Gregorian or Julian. Provide the Gregorian date with the date in the respective calendar in parentheses after it.
3. The date mentioned is on or after 1 January 1950. Use the Gregorian calendar; you do not have to provide any other calendar system unless it is essential to the topic (in that case, fall back to term 2).

day-month-year

Provide full dates in the day-month-year format. For example, today will be 26 October 2024.

month-day

Provide dates without years in the month-day format with plain numbers. For example, today will be October 26.

U.S. dates

For pages with strong U.S. ties:

1. the month-day-year format is acceptable; use superscripted ordinal number for the date, or use {{Date-o-matic}} accordingly. For example, today will be October 26^th, 2024.
2. superscripted ordinal numbers may be used for dates without years. For example, today will be October 26^th.

If these superscripted ordinal numbers are used, they must be used consistently throughout the article.

time zones

If time are to be provided, provide the time zone in UTC offset along with it. For example, the server time when this page has loaded is 01:44:22 UTC+00:00.

The page-top template{{timezone}} may be used so the editor do not have to mark the time zone for every time appeared in the article.

24-hour system

If time are to be provided, use the 24-hour system.

Ancient dates

Provide date and time in the Julian calendar for dates from 1 January 45 BCE to 2 September 1752 CE (Julian) inclusive, unless:

1. There is a strong tie to a country and this country, at the time mentioned, had adopted the Gregorian calendar, yet it is before 1752; use the Gregorian calendar, and use the page-top template {{Gregorian before 1752}} accordingly.
2. There is a strong tie to a country and this country, at the time mentioned, uses a calendar different from Gregorian or Julian. Provide the Julian date with the date in the respective calendar in parentheses after it.

If you are to provide (accurate) dates before 1752 CE, provide appropriate citations to prove the accuracy. If you cannot, use the year only.

English Moegirlpedia has no currently established style guide on dates before 1 January 45 BCE, for one is not expected to write about times before 45 BCE in Moegirlpedia.

See also

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